Exhibition - Danser Sa Vie at the Pompidou Centre

[Jan McNulty]

If anyone should happen to find themselves in Paris between now and April there is a truly fascinating exhibition on at the Pompidou Centre called Danser Sa Vie about dance in the early 20th century.

 

There is archive footage of Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham and Josephine Baker and some footage of more recent performances of L'Apres-midi and Parade as well as photographs, paintings and artefacts. The exhibition also covers links to rhythmic gymnastics and the health and fitness movement in Germany in the 1930s.

 

It is a large exhibition and even after a couple of hours my friend and I did not feel we had done it justice.

 

Highly recommended.